THE " TIMES " AND THE WAR.
[To TEE EDITOR OP TEE SFECTATOR.1 Sant,—You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion of the effect of the Times articles on the war. Personally, malo errors cum " Wounded" in his letter in the Times of December 6th. But your readers have a right to be surprised and disappointed that (like the Daily News and Chronicle) you omit any mention of the disgraceful notion of the Chief Whip (of a nominally Coalition Party) in leaving out Conservatives and Nationalists when he sent out a Whip to the Liberals and Nationalists. I suppose you admire Sir John Simon's impartial speech with its ridiculous fuss about some trumpery map in the Daily Mail, as if the whole world did not know abut the Baghdad Railway anerGermany's designs on Asia Minor. Lord Robert Cecil appears to have felt the difficulties of his position. Tho only point of his speech was that he thought there should be no censorship, and that news- papers should be allowed to write on their own responsibility:—
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